Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!steveb
From: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Choice Memory or Hard Drive?
Message-ID: <3386@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 15:01:19 GMT
References: <3158@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 18
Keywords: Should I or shouldn't I

In article <3158@dasys1.UUCP> samw@dasys1.UUCP (Sam Weissman) writes:
>I have to make a choice, for my Amiga 1000.  Due to economic 
>limitations I can only purchase a memory expansion...or a
>hard drive.  Which do you think should be given priority,
>if it has to one or the other for now?  Would also appreciate
>any recommendations, based upon satisfactory performance, of
>either, or both of those devices.  Forgot to mention that my
>1000 at present has 512K.  Thanks for any advice or leads!

I'd go with the hard drive first.  If you get memory, fine, you'll be able to
run more programs at once etc. but you'll probably have to keep swapping
floppies to load them in and things will be none too fast.  (You didn't
mention how many floppy drives you had).  However, if you go with the hard
drive, you will notice a significant speed up in the environment, and although
you can't keep as many programs resident at one time, loading them will be
a lot quicker.  This is my opinion and someone's sure to disagree.

	Steve